Dee told Mama, ""No, Mama," she says. ... While Mama wrapped those items, Dee ran into Mamas room to the trunk that is at the end of her bed. ... When Dee reappeared from Mama's room with the quilts, Mama revealed that the quilts had been promised to Maggie. ... It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it....
The narrator, Mama, "a large big boned woman with rough, man working hands, who wears, "flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day," whose, "fat keeps her hot in zero weather," is strong and uneducated and does anything to make her daughters Dee and Maggie happy (Walker 298). ... Mama then continues to say, "Take one or two of the others," (303). ... When Mama asks, "What happened to Dee?... Prior to Dee going off to school, Mama offers her a quilt and Dee denies. ... Mama denies Dee of the quilts, Dee replies, "It's really a new day...
"No, Mama, " she says. ... She expresses no regards or sympathy towards Mama. ... "She will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. " Every day since the house burned down Maggie walks around unsure of her self. ... It's really a new day fro us. ... Mama view on her daughter Dee changes throughout the story. ...
PARENTS AND KIDS RELATIONSHIPS "October Sky" by Joe Johnston and "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker's stories deal with parents and kids relationships. ... In "Every Day Use" it's a story narrated by a woman who describes her self as "a large, big-boned woman with rough, woman-working hands." ... This was shown when she says to her mother "She can have them, Mama, I can still remember Grandma Dee without the quilts." ... As well as "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker provided us a list of conflicts, which made Maggie and her mother relationship very static. ...
